A novel microstrip fed ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna with different band rejection techniques is presented in this paper. The antenna consists of a maple-leaf shaped radiator fed by a microstrip line with a finite ground plane on the other side of the substrate. The size of the UWB antenna is 30.5 x 35.5 mm2 which is only about 0.3 x 0.35 λ2 at 3 GHz. The calculated impedance bandwidth of the proposed antenna ranges from 3 GHz to 14 GHz with relatively stable radiation patterns. Two different techniques have been implemented to achieve band-notch characteristic in the 5.0-6.0 GHz WLAN frequency band. The first one uses an H-shaped slot cut away from the radiating patch while the other one uses two rectangular slits in the ground plane creating defected ground structure (DGS).